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A report from ProPublica in October crushed the fiction that revenue management software in the residential housing market doesn’t hurt renters. The troubling ProPublica report and its aftermath raise questions for all compliance officers, not just those in the real estate space: Is algorithmic pricing legal? And even if it’s legal, is it ethical?
On August 14, 2018, new amendments to the Russian Code on Administrative Offenses (Administrative Code) related to bribery by legal entities went into effect. The new provisions establish conditions exempting companies from liability for bribery if those companies assist authorities in uncovering and investigating misconduct.
In his 61-page ruling this week allowing the SEC’s suit against two former Noble executives to go forward, federal district judge Keith P. Ellison provided some excellent ‘guidance’ about the FCPA.
Employees at Wells Fargo opened about two million deposit and credit card accounts that customers didn’t authorize. Why? To earn incentive compensation for new accounts.
As we saw last week, there’s a perception that voluntary anti-corruption declarations are too weak to have any significant impact on preventing corruption. While it’s true that declarations have more of the “collective” than the “action,” they are still an important step in the fight against corruption, especially when combined with the awareness-raising activities which usually accompany them.
The UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) recently published a chapter from its internal Handbook on how it engages with companies seeking to enter into a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA).
Do you have a charter or similar document for your compliance program? Approximately 83% of the companies responding to date to the anti-corruption compliance program benchmarking survey we are conducting with the FCPA Blog do.
As the G8 leaders meet in Northern Ireland today and tomorrow, it is important that they make strides on two key anti-corruption issues: (1) Ensuring public officials and their relatives cannot cloak their identities and the source of their corrupt funds by using anonymous corporations and (2) Ensuring that extractive wealth fuels development rather than corruption and poor governance.
One of the more interesting developments I discovered during the holiday period was a proposal from the Barbadian Chief Justice Minister, Sir Marston Gibson, to set up a regional asset recovery group in the Caribbean.
Job Title: Corporate Compliance Director
Employer: Avaya
Location: Basking Ridge, New Jersey or Santa Clara, California
